Prof Dynarski

Lovely!

The late great Rock-and-Roll Sharptooth was my steadfast baker’s aide

I don’t make the WSJ rules 🤷‍♂️

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“‘He’s an extremely powerful man w/an enormous network of people who have learned from him, been mentored by him. He’s powerful in DC, powerful at Harvard. That counts for a lot, & that explains a lot,’ said Susan Dynarski, a well-known Harvard economist affiliated w/its Grad School of Education.“

How Larry Summers’s Power Delayed the Reckoning Over His Epstein Ties The former Treasury Secretary and Harvard president’s enormous network and clout kept him immune from past Jeffrey Epstein revelations. But this time was just too much.

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Never know when a team of insurgents might be hiding behind a Takis end cap.

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Due date for abstracts: December 10, 2025

I'm the Program Chair for Health and Development, so would like to encourage global health scholars in particular

Some tips for prospective authors in thread below

Shaming people for making choices that harm others, when they have been repeatedly informed about these harms, is good, actually

‘A Recipe for Idiocracy’ What happens when even college students can’t do math anymore?

Meanwhile: "The UC San Diego report notes that more than a quarter of the students who placed into the elementary- and middle-school-level remedial course last year had earned straight A’s in their high-school math classes. Almost all of them had taken advanced math courses in high school." 🎢 ♾️ 🍎

Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.

“The first time I caught up to them, I could tell that they already knew who I was. They had seen me before, so they thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, ‘Ha ha, bitches, I got a new scooter!’"

Larry Summers cozied up to the rich and powerful — including a convicted sex offender. He cannot be trusted in positions of influence.

Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.

#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.

Victory lap:

Women in economics have unfortunately become accustomed to dealing with sexism and harassment in the workplace. This reduces women’s productivity and limits their success and should never be tolerated.

CSWEP strongly condemns Larry Summers’ behavior as revealed in the email correspondence with the late Jeffrey Epstein. While abuse of power in the economics profession is not new, rarely has the intent behind such abuse been so clearly stated.

We call on other institutions in the economics profession to take these revelations seriously, to open an independent investigation into Summers’ conduct, and to reconsider his access to the platforms and networks that he has been afforded for too long.

It's therapeutic, I find

It's not even a morality issue---it's an equity issue.

In essence, about half the student body has to manage the prospect that approaching the professor for help, professional advice, guidance, or feedback is going to go sideways.

Women in his classes are not getting the same class.

I have been feeling depressed and discouraged that this man has the power and influence he does at my school and in my profession

And I am a tenured professor at Harvard! How much more protected can I be?

Imagine how STUDENTS feel. Junior faculty. This quote nails it

Brookings’ Form 990 from 2008 lists Summers as a Trustee “until June 2009”

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Sorry 990s

Boss UM colleague Helen Levy has receipts. 1099s will show where Summers has been a director. Comment from Facebook

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Washington Post:

Epstein coached Summers on “how to attract a woman”

Yeah that is definitely how the convo went

That is how we describe a senior academic using mentoring to extract sex from a mentee

(Not linking out of annoyance)

Harvard shuffles to the mic

Lagging behind Peterson Institute, Brookings, Center for American Progress, Center for Global Development…

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Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers and Former Congressman John Porter Elected To Brookings Board of Trustees | Brookings A Brookings News Release, Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers and Former Congressman John E. Porter Elected To Brookings Board of Trustees

Oh no, the Wayback Machine always remembers. @brookings.edu

Oh, you are better at the Wayback than I!

Wayback Machine confirms Brookings denial of Summers' claim that he was on their Board of Trustees

Lordy those hiring platforms just do not do due diligence when screening job candidates